The all-new Toyota Rongfang RAV4 is exposed, the styling is hard, and the interior has a new look, will you like it?
After Prado entered the fifth-generation J250, Toyota seems to be stepping up efforts to complete the overall transformation of its SUV design language, and the retro hard-core style has brought Toyota back to the 70s and 80s. After completing some hard-core SUV or off-road vehicle upgrades, these designs with a strong retro flavor began to enter more urban SUVs, including the best-selling RAV4, which is known as Rongfang in China.
The last time the Glory received a major facelift was last year's special Expedition Edition, but they were only a special decoration of the exterior kit, and now the spy footage we see in the footage is more like a special render of the new version, and it is not from the official version. As you can see, the front of the car is almost a replica of the new Prado, with rectangular headlights with exposed high and low beams, a small grille in between, all the grids look very regular, and the use of charcoal grey bezels and lower trim panels. It can be seen that the Prado not only relies on the small size of the main grille to intake air, but also covers more air hole structures in the decorative panels, lower grille, and even the bumper.
From the rear, the car's lines are also very strong, his wheel arches are surrounded by a wide range of sports, and the side skirts, rear bumper and other areas are included with stronger sports guards to protect and prevent scratches. However, the RAV4 is not as exaggerated in its structure as the Prado, with a more sleek waistline structure and more traditional taillight styling while maintaining the same regular tailgate. In addition, the rear windows of the car are still profiled, which adds more personalization to the vehicle and allows for more targeted interior lighting optimisation.
In some renders, we also see the cockpit effect of the Toyota RAV4, the car adopts some more coherent design elements inside, but on the main body, the LCD instrument cluster still maintains a more independent embedded, and the floating touch screen will reach a size of 12.3 inches, while also adding some control keys to optimize specific function operations. In addition, the car has been completed from the centre console to the front trim bash for the front passenger seat, which will make the entire cabin appear wider. In addition, we also saw the plug-in wireless charging structure, the small size of the electronic stop knob, and the tilted layout of the Type-C port, etc.
In addition, at this angle we can get close to the steering wheel of the car, which is similar in style to what we see in the crown, and here in addition to multimedia control, it will also support the rapid adjustment of intelligent assisted driving, intelligent voice and other functions, which will make it easier to use the car.
In terms of power, the new generation Toyota RAV4 Rongfang may abandon the sale of the pure fuel version, and the vehicle is expected to use a combination of internal combustion engine and electric motor, that is, the whole system covers the THS petrol-electric hybrid system, and the transmission is matched with the E-CVT electronic continuously variable transmission mechanism. In addition, the Toyota RAV4 will also be offered with a plug-in hybrid system, which will be adapted to the E-Four electric all-wheel drive system to optimize driving. Of course, the Dynamic Torque Vectoring Control system will continue to be used to make the car more controllable in dynamic driving, and the +30% increase in torque from the rear wheels will also improve the car's acceleration performance.
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There is not much reliable information about the new generation of Toyota RAV4, but judging from the information that has been exposed so far, the vehicle will indeed get more hardcore elements in the new round of replacement to optimize the personality recognition that the body can have. In addition, regarding the new generation of models, we are also looking forward to the arrival of more intelligent interconnection and intelligent driving configuration upgrades, so as to maintain its comprehensive competitiveness in front of models such as the Honda CR-V.